Hi, I downloaded latest joal release so I found that it has sound3d package. I love its architecture, it is much more object oriented and "java style", so I hoped I could use it in my game. But, it just doesn't work.this is the code:

it doesnt rise exception, it just doesnt play anything. file is defenetly there and it works good with lwjgl's joal wrapper.

One another thing bothers me. In joal windows binaries there is joal.jar and joal.dll, but without OpenAL.dll (from lwjgl libraries) it rises exception: net.java.games.joal.OpenALException: Could not load openal library.

So my questions are:

1. what is the status of net.java.games.sound3d package2. what's wrong with my code above3. which dll's I need to use joal

The Sound3D toolkit isn't really under active development. However, we can certainly make changes if you have suggestions.

The following slightly modified version of your test case works. Note the creation of the Device and Context which were missing. Additionally the program was exiting before the sound had finished playing. This shouldn't be a problem in a normal game.

Please try downloading the new JOAL binaries which are now linked to from the JOAL home page. The API has changed somewhat from the older releases, but the new version should be stable and the implementation should also be more robust than the older one.

Agreed that it's a cleaner, more object-oriented API. If you have suggestions for how to improve the API please post them.

For now I don't have suggestions, It is really good and simple.I am bit confused with versions, because I recently downloaded joal1.1b0.4, but now I see joal1.1b01 as latest release...Another thing that bothers me is that javadoc for joal1.1b0.1 doesn't contain sound3d package doc. Why is that so?

I am bit confused with versions, because I recently downloaded joal1.1b0.4, but now I see joal1.1b01 as latest release...

Sorry for the confusion. I think we need to reset the version numbering because the old autogenerated binaries were incorrect and "1.1" is the best version number to indicate that JOAL has been upgraded with OpenAL 1.1 support.

[qupte]Another thing that bothers me is that javadoc for joal1.1b0.1 doesn't contain sound3d package doc. Why is that so?

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